Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"Let's make it perfectly clear...

I don't like spiders and snakes. And that ain't what it takes to love me." Remember that song by Jim Stafford? It just came to me as I was creating this post. Don't worry, no spiders here, but there are snakes since a few of you said you didn't mind, and I'm running low on material.

Broad banded watersnake

Smaller broad banded watersnake

Let me pretty things up with some dewberries

Possibly a diamondback watersnake.

Large clump of trillium growing beneath a young tree.

Sorry for any heebie geebies or ear worms resulting from this post. :)

i think you are trying to give me a heart attack this AM. i skipped all photos. to the comment section. i will say have a great day. i will imagine they are perfect little snakes, tongues & all. i am sorry i have yet to get over my snake encounters from last year. i am wondering how many i will see this year? fingers crossed for only ones on the computer screen. ok, ok, i will try to be brave & i will look. here goes. are you holding my hand???! just jump . . . .. ( :

Awesome, awesome, but somehow I don't think that is a surprise coming from me! ;) And I think you're right, I think that one may be a diamond back water snake too.

I used to have a corn snake, it was so beautiful and he went to all eight 4th grade classes when my daughter was in 4th grade along with some of my birds. We have to reach the kids when they are young , to teach them to respect nature, and then maybe they wouldn't grow up to be adults who dislike and fear everything. Nearly all the thank you's I got from the girls wanted to know how much they were and what you needed to have one. I loved it. Thanks for sharing these!

There was a black racer in my yard and the lawn guys were beating the dwarf nandina in front of my house thinking it was wrapped around them. Once they caught it (it slithered from the juniper, I had the nandina pulled up! Can't remove the juniper because it's holding a small hill. They have (almost) no place to hide in my yard!

Oh wow Gail, these are so cool! I love them all but that one where he is staring right at you is amazing. I saw two water moccasins in Florida but they were all tangled up in branches and hard to take photos of. These are fantastic!

Whew girl.....my heart is really pounding. Can I say...Great Photos...it's just that I'm terrified of these things. I do indeed hope that you had a good distance with a good lens, between you and the snake. With all the swamp ground, there are plenty of these things around. My heart is still pounding!! lol.shug

I don't mind spiders and snakes cuz.thats not what it takes ......wait a minute, I don't mind them in the right place. Not in my house. But outside is fine. Although one of my sons had a pet snake for a while. In a terrarium. In our house. We all survived. Yours are lovely. They have great color.

I-yi-yi!!You are much too close to that snake. Amazing with that tongue!!Grew up on a lake in central Fla. We had a shovel on every corner of the house and garage due to all the water moccasins. I know that first snake is a very good snake and that you have a zoom - at least I hope you did! But yikes, a snake is a snake!!

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